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Posted on November 26, 2014 at 12:00 AM by Jeffrey Bruner
November 26
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Playwright Eugene Ionesco was born on this day in 1909. Ionesco was a member of the Avant-Garde movement, or Theater of the Absurd. One of his best known works is "Rhinoceros" (1959), in which the inhabitants of a small French village gradually turn into the animal, save for one Everyman. The play is seen as a response to the uprise in Communism, Fascism and Nazism before and after World War II.
SPOKEN WORDS
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx.
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- "Sparky" (Beverly Gherman, biography). $1.99. Nook.
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- "A Last Goodbye," (J.A. Jance, mystery). 99 cents Kindle.
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